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20th birthday Amiga [nostalgia]
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:18 pm
by saturn
http://amigaworld.net/modules/features/ ... 30&sort_by
23rd of July 1985 was the launch of the Amiga 1000. There's still a little hardcore community surrounding this great piece of a home computer.
I bought an Amiga 500 in 1987 and owned it for about 7 years. It was lightyears ahead of the competition with 4 channel 8 bit stereo sound, custom graphics chips and 4096 colours on screen in a time when the PC mainly had monochrome screens or the state-of-the-art CGA 4 colors.
I still miss the good times when I used samples in Soundtracker and made some kind of rubbish dance song. Oh yeah, best games were hmmm:
Xenon 2
Crazy Cars 2
Shadow of the Beast
Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge
Speedball 2
Lots and lots more.
Shame Commodore totally fucked it up...they didn't know what the target group was and couldn't sell it to a blind millionaire. Don't think it'll ever resurrect again though some companies are still developing hardware for it and AmigaOS is still developed.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:28 pm
by [xeno]Julios
ahh.. memories.
Few of my friends owned these back in the day. I used to have so much fun going over to their house to play on it and watch those awesome "acid demos". Also had a great time composing music on it - one of my friends had a keyboard.
ah...
my parents would never get one though - they ended up getting a shitty 16 mhz pc that fell apart pretty fast...
man i used to dream about having an amiga when i was a kid
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:42 pm
by saturn
me too...after our ZX Spectrum + broke down, I nagged and begged my father for a long time till he bought us one. It was an amazing jump in technology, going from 48 kB to an WHOOPING 512 kB ram
I should have kept that thing
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 10:58 pm
by saturn
ok ok
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:04 pm
by diego
I started programming with a commodore cbm 8032 and it was horrible. But fun.
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:05 pm
by saturn
dude, that was a totally different machine
and Germany had the biggest Amiga fanbase and still has. photoshopnoob!
Posted: Fri Jul 29, 2005 11:06 pm
by diego
grr... my photoshop skills are not tooooo bad!
and, yes, i know, the Amiga is still very big in ze Fazerland. I love it.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:47 am
by saturn
Guess there aren't many oldskool Amiga users around
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:51 am
by *OptimusPrime*
i love these HBD threads \o/
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 10:53 am
by phantasmagoria
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:04 am
by Yeando
saturn wrote:Guess there aren't many oldskool Amiga users around
Ive still got my Amiga 1200 under my bed, still with my shitload of *PaR4d0X* games
Frontier: Elite 2 & Sensible World of Soccer still own.
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:23 am
by saturn
omg yeah, Sensible Soccer was one of the best games ever!
I found an Amiga retailer in Holland that still sells 1200 and 4000/4500 Amiga's. The 1200 comes with 18 megs of ram! And 250 mb HD. That's amazing when you consider that originally the 1200 came with 2 mb of ram and no HD at all. (68030 cpu btw)
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:35 am
by Yeando
Lol I remember having a go at typing a letter using Wordsworth.
After typing several words the fucking program constantly bugged me to insert different disks just to update program settings :icon27:
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:38 am
by saturn
remember the program "Say"? You typed something i and a speechsynthesizer let the computer speak the words in an amazing computerized tone
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:42 am
by Yeando
Mine was more like 'dont say'.
I couldnt get anything to work properly on my Amiga. But then I didnt have a clue about computers. With the exception of getting to know how to use my old ZX Spectrum when I was only 7 (another nostalgia trip :icon23: )
Posted: Sat Jul 30, 2005 11:45 am
by ppp
Ah yes, good times
Rick Dangerous
Elite
Turrican 1 & 2
Alien Breed
Mine's in the attick
